Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior (MindTap Course List)
Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and Behavior (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305091870
Author: Dennis Coon, John O. Mitterer
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Psychology is a branch of science that deals with specific approaches to understand the behavior of humans that includes the conscious and unconscious phenomenon, feelings and thoughts of an individual person. Each person has different perceptions of the world. The perceptions differ in the way of selecting, organizing, and interpreting things. The ground figure perception is the primary perceptual ability to remember the things with the sensory stimuli.

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When a person is prepared to perceive events in a particular way, it is said that a perceptual expectancy or set exists.

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The raw data about the outside world provided by our senses should be interpreted in order to make sense of information. This could be achieved by organizing the data based on our perception. The perceptual set is also called perceptual expectancy, which is a group of hope to perceive things in a particular way. Perceptual sets are created by people while interpreting hazy situations in the way they want it to be. Thus, the perceptual set is perceiving some aspects of sensory data that are available while ignoring others.

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